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Day books of sales made by John McKeown's boot and shoe business on Front Street in Belleville, listing customers' names and items purchased. There are four volumes covering the following dates:
1) July 1878 - April 1882
2) April 1882 - December 1884
3) May 1894 - August 1900
4) April 1912 - October 1917

A fifth volume contains an alphabetical index to customers' names.

Five files of photographs and one file containing the 2012 text of Gerry Boyce's book 'Historic Hastings, Volume Two'. The photographs show scenes in Hastings County and include some Boyce family photographs.

Photographic prints showing:
1) City Centennial events in Belleville, Ontario, including the Mayor's Levée, Arts in the Park, Centennial Parade and double decker bus, Railway Week, Ethnic Festival [71 photographs]
2) Burrell's axe factory building (known as Meyer's Mill) before restoration, 1979 and Centennial log cabin in Front Street location [6 photographs]
3) Aerial views of open pit mine at Marmora, 1990 [3 photographs]
4) Views of Queensborough, spring 1993 [7 photographs]
5) Aerial views of downtown Belleville taken from Remax hot air balloon and the tower of Bridge Street United Church, 1993 [13 photographs]
6) People at Fort Kenthe, 1994 [2 photographs]
7) Ruth Burrows receiving the Order of Canada, 1999 [1 photograph]
8) Prince Edward's visit to the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment at the Belleville Armouries, June 2005 [2 photographs]

Photograph of nine-year-old Thomas Martin at a fundraising event in Belleville, Ontario, to raise money to help fight his brain cancer. [Thomas died on 29 February 2016.]

Program, newspaper cuttings and colour photographs taken at the opening of the Veterans' Memorial Bridge on Bell Boulevard in Belleville, Ontario.

Newsletters for the following dates:
February 1985
December 1985
November/December 1987
May/June 1990
April/May 1991

Also a flyer encouraging people to come to the annual meeting of the Belleville Runner's Club in May 1999.

Article about the discovery of the Halifax bomber aircraft 'Moonlight Mermaid' which crashed in Germany in March 1945, killing three of its crew, including Stewart Millen Bonter of Marmora, Ontario.

Journal containing article 'On the Trail of William Embury, Lantern Maker: A Tale of Two Countries' by Mel Zaloudek. Embury worked for the W. W. Chown company in Belleville, Ontario, in the 1890s, manufacturing tinware and lanterns.

Black and white photographs of archaeological sites and Indigenous artifacts recorded by archaeologist Russell J. Barber in his archaeological survey of the Moira Valley in 1975.

This collection consists of:
1) Photograph of attendees at the Mooseheart Legion of the World first annual convention in Jacksonville, Florida, January 1929
2) Mooseheart Legion membership certificate in the name of John Delderfield, 14 July 1925
3) Life Membership Certificate in the Loyal Order of Moose for J. R. Delderfield, 31 December 1931
4) Certificate of membership in the Moira Lodge No. 11 of the Freemasons, 4 July 1931

Transcript of 1885 diary of Mary Eliza Rose (1863-1941) of Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Ontario, with scanned copies of photographs of members of the Rose family and their hotel on Rednersville Road.

Copies of research materials and photographs relating to HCMS Belleville, a Royal Canadian Navy corvette launched in 1944 and paid off in 1945.

Register of marriage licences issued between 21 March 1922 and 25 December 1926. There are two later entries, in pencil, for 10 February 1942 and 8 March 1946. In total there are 34 entries in this register.

Collection of Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railway timetables, shipping receipts, and three photographs of CN trains taken on 31 May 1951.

Materials include:
1) Transcription by Lois Foster of an interview from the Daily Intelligencer of 21 November 1903 with Arthur McGinnis, Moira Lodge historian, on 'The Fraternal Societies of Belleville', focusing on the Freemasons
2) Biographical information compiled by the Historical Committee [of Hastings County Historical Society?] in 1982, and introduction to Betsy Boyce's book 'The Accidental Prime Minister', 2000
3) Newspaper clippings relating to Mackenzie Bowell, 1982-2005
4) Correspondence, research materials and speech by Gerry Boyce in relation to the Ontario Heritage Foundation plaque on Mackenzie Bowell's former home at 194 William Street, Belleville, 1982-1984
5) Print of a drawing of Glanmore and the fountain in front of the house by Phillipa Faulkner, 1984
6) Poster 'Beautiful City, Belleville, Ontario' by Terri L. Horricks for the Canadian Mental Health Association, 2006